description of the recent financial events

From: Anil Kashyap <anil.kashyap_at_chicagogsb.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:06:59 -0500

If you are looking for a Reader's Digest version of what is going on
that is suitable for giving to your students (or in-laws), here is a
link to a summary that Doug Diamond and I prepared for the Freakonomics Blog:

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/diamond-and-kashyap-on-the-recent-financial-upheavals/#more-3097

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University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business
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